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“There is usually a block of time each day where you at your best-peak energy, peak enthusiasm. Let’s say it’s 2 hours per day. How do you spend those 2 hours? Who or what gets your best time?” -James Clear (Monday Morning Question)
In education, the schedule of the day drives what we do. You might be a small group teacher like myself and have some leeway over how your schedule looks. You might be a classroom teacher and have your schedule blocked out and handed to you.
How can you find a way to maximize your best time of day, and how you can help your students to maximize their best time of day?
We are not all “morning people,” and maybe some of us function better after we get warmed up.
Observe- find out more about yourself and your students. Do you get your best work done before the day in class starts? Are you better off working in the afternoon or evening?
Your students might need a warmup too- I recently had to substitute in a class and found the “morning meeting” question a great way to kick off conversation and get the mental juices flowing for students. Is there a way to ask a “would your rather” question and get your students thinking and talking.
Test and retest- you are not going to find the optimal time for all things. You might find that the night before determines how…
